Questions:
Under Reflective Exercise: write what each statement (a, b, and c) mean to you as a student, a person, and as a future social worker. Please type the questions as well as answers.
Please answer questions #1 (A,B,C) and #2.
QUESTION 1
A). Social workers "promote social change ... and the empowerment and liberation of people" (International Federation of Social Workers, 2014, para. 1)
What does this statement mean to you as a student?
What does this statement mean to you as a person?
What does this statement mean to you as a future social worker?
B). Social workers pay "attention to the environmental forces that create, contribute to, and address problems in living... (and) promote social justice... (and)... strive to end discrimination, oppression, poverty, and other forms of social injustice" (National Association of Social Workers, 2008)
What does this statement mean to you as a student?
What does this statement mean to you as a person?
What does this statement mean to you as a future social worker?
C) social workers seek "human and community well-being... social and economic justice, the prevention of conditions that limit human rights, the elimination of poverty, and the enhancement of the quality of life for all persons, locally and globally" (Council on Social Work Education, 2015, para. 1).
What does this statement mean to you as a student?
What does this statement mean to you as a person?
What does this statement mean to you as a future social worker?
QUESTION 2
2. What do you see as the advantages and disadvantages of identifying yourself as a "social worker" rather than, say, a "therapist" or
a "counselor"?PLEASE EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWERS WITH DETAILS